Shoe rack



Nov. 10, 1931. c. P. MlTCHEL 1,830,804

SHOE RACK Original Filed March 2 1922 INVENTOR ATTORNEY Patented Nov. 10, 1931 UNITED STATES CHARLES PIQUETTE MI'rcHEL, OFTYDE'IROIT, MICHIGAN SHOE I Original application filed March 27, 1922, Seria1 No. 547.159. .mv aeda a' this application filed May as, l

1928. Serial No. 280,484,;

This invention relates'to improvements in shoe racks and method of making the same. This application is a division of my application Serial N 0. 547,159, now Patent N o. 1,-

674,654, filed March 27, 1922, for Shoe rack. One of the objects of my invention has been to simplify and cheapen the construction of shoe racks for use especially for keepa ing shoes off the floor in closets or the like.

Another object of my invention has been to construct from a blank of sheet metal a shoe rack having upper and lower shoe supporting members and integral connections and supports therefor.

Another object of my invention is a process of forming from a blank. of sheet metal a shoe rack having upper and lower shoe supporting members, supports therefor and integral connecting members between such supports and said supporting members.

Other objects of the invention will be obvious to those skilled in the art from the following description of a shoe rack embodying it.

Fig. 1 illustrates a blank of sheet metal in erspective from which one of my shoe rac s may be formed.

Fig. 2 illustrates the first blanking operation in the formation of the shoe rack.

Fig. 3 illustrates the first bending operation on the blank.

Fig. 4 illustrates the second bending operation on the blank.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a shoe rack embodying my invention.

Fig. 6 illustrates a modified blanking oper ation in perspective.

Fi 7 is a view in perspective of a modified orm of shoe rack from the type shown in Fig. 2.

In the drawings, A represents a'blank of suitable sheet metal. This blank, preferably, is first subjected to a blanking operation during which there is formed an upper bar 1 having end portions 1a and lb, and a lower bar 2, having end portions 2a and 2b with integral portions 3 and 3 between the end por-' tions 1a and 2a and 1b and 26, respectively. In the next forming operation, preferably the end portions 1a, 2a and 1b, 2b are bent at right angles to the upper andlower bars 1 and 2as illustrated in Fig. 3, thus providing two center portions of the same length, Next the connecting bars or supports 3, 3 are bent substantially at right angles to the end sections 1a, 2b, and la, 26, respectively,

as illustrated .in Fig. 4.

It will thus be seen that I have formed from a single piece of sheet metal a rack embodying my invention which, when at tached to a fiat vertical surfacesuch as a door, as illustrated in dotted lines in Fig. 5, will provide central portions of the upper and lower bars 1, 2 respectively in different vertical planes, since the end bars 1a, 1?) connecting the upper bar 1 with the supports 3, 3, respectively, are shorter than the end bars 2a, 2/) connecting the lower bar 2 with the said supports 8, 3.

Should it be desired to form shoe racks embodying my invention by this process and in this manner of relatively thin sheet metal and yet have certain portions thereof relatively rigid, the same may be accomplished by providing flanges for the various bars which flanges in the finished rack are bent at right angles to the planes of the bars proper and rearwardly so as to be practically concealed. In Fig. 6 I have illustrated in perspective a blank thus formed in the first operation and in Fig.7 in perspective one of the racks thus completely formed with sections 10 and 2c of the bars 1 and 2, respectively, being bent at right angles thereto.

It will be noted that by my process I have 3 produced from a relatively cheap blank of sheet metal a relatively light and sufiiciently rigid shoe rack. The racks produced in accordance with this invention, furthermore, may be nested readily for compact packing 1 for shipment purposes in the same manner disclosed and claimed in my saioloriginal application No. 547,159.

To those skilled in the art to which this invention relates many alterations in construction and widely differing embodiments and applications of my invention will suggest themselves without departing from the spirit and scope thereof. My disclosures and description herein are purely illustrative and {190 are not intended to be in any sense limiting.

What I claim is A. shoe rack including a pair of relatively narrow spaced members each having a shoe supporting portion, one of said spaced members throughout its shoe supporting portion being flanged, endportions' integrally formed with said shoe supporting portions and arranged at an angle thereto and being shorter in the plane of their connection withthe' upper spaced member than they are in the plane of their connection with the lower spaced member. and integral, vertical supports dis- 7 posed in the plane at an angle to'said end portions with which they are integrally formedand serving as supports for the rack. In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

CHARLES PIQUETTE MITGHEL. 

